NVIDIA GeForce 9400M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 475 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 20 Watt
Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 55 vs 28

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 October 2008 vs 31 December 2007
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	55 vs 28

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 113 vs 101
Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1267 vs 1117
Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1267 vs 1117

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	113 vs 101
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1267 vs 1117
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1267 vs 1117

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

101

113

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

1267

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

1267

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	101	113
PassMark - G2D Mark	55	28
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117	1267
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117	1267

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	C79MX	G84
Launch date	15 October 2008	31 December 2007
Place in performance rating	1643	1646
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	289 million
Floating-point performance		60.8 gflops
Pipelines		32
Texture fill rate		7.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3, GDDR2
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0